Also called a network interface card (NIC), a network adapter is a plug-in card that enables a computer to transmit and receive data on a local network. Today, the term refers to an Ethernet adapter, although in the past, Token Ring, LocalTalk and FDDI networks were used.
Hypernyms (dependability is a kind of...): responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of dependability): solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally) infallibility (the quality of never making an error) duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)
Auto research firm J.D. Power and Associates released the results of its 2016 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study, which surveyed 33,560 original owners of 2013 model-year cars after 3 years of ownership about the problems they had experienced. Nine cars were awarded with top honors in dependability in this yearâs study.